Ohai Chefs, We’re pleased to announce that Chef Server 12.1.0 RC3 is now available for download. RC3 is the follow-up to RC1, which we announced on May 28th. ### What’s New Since RC1 * **Erlang 17:** We’ve upgraded the Erlang distribution that we ship with the Chef Server to Erlang 17.

Chef’s Product team is pleased to announce the launch of feedback.chef.io, our new site for collecting and responding to product feedback.  The site hosts three feedback forums, one each for Chef, Analytics and Delivery.  The Delivery forum is currently invite-only for participants in the early access program, but will be made public in the future.

Ever used oc-id with Chef Analytics or Chef Supermarket? Read on for information on how it works! What is oc-id? oc-id is a Chef authentication/authorization service. It allows you to use your Chef Server account credentials to access other applications.

This week the Chef team is at Cisco’s biggest customer event of the year, Cisco Live in San Diego! We’ve joined 20,000+ attendees to learn more about Cisco’s products and roadmap and to meet with users, operators and developers who are interested in how Chef and Cisco are working together.

Ohai Chefs! Today we have released Chef Server 11.1.7, which contains the following security updates: OpenSSL 1.0.1m PostgreSQL 9.2.10 nginx 1.8.0 Please note that this update applies only to the Open Source Chef Server 11 product. Enterprise Chef 11 and Chef Server 12 have previously received these updates.

These days there are lots of folks talking about DevOps. We read about DevOps in the Wall Street Journal, CIO Magazine, and in endless Gartner and Forrester reports. We’re told we must have DevOps for our organization to survive against our competitors.

Or: Writing Ruby test code to verify Unix/Linux systems for auditing purposes Many organizations must adhere to PCI-DSS requirements, or similar standards. However, those standards are often not specific, so we cannot rely on them to give implementation details.

“We needed to make sure that we can go from on-prem to cloud very, very easily and rapidly.” -Sameer Doshi, kCura We recently worked together with our friends at Microsoft to spotlight an incredible success story at kCura, an eDiscovery company based in Chicago.

Ohai Chefs! I’m pleased to announce that Chef Server 12.1.0-rc.1 is now available for download. Here are some of this release’s highlights: * Significant performance improvements. * Policyfiles and cookbook artifacts are complete and are enabled by default. * Server API Versioning: API `0` is now deprecated, and current API version level is `1`.